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Bored at work today and I was trying to create a "budget" for next season. It was something I wanted to make last year, but I never did because I was afraid as to how much it would come up to!!

Here is a quick rundown of our budget and not towing, is there stuff that I should have on here that I'm missing? What is your guys similar budgets????

4(or 5) - ProSolos (including finale)
2 - SEDIV events (instead of national tours)
1 - National Championship
12 - local events (6thscc, 1 tscc, 2 vmsc, 3 ccr, not including night events)

I figured the ProSolo weekend price would be
-$100 entry fee (w/ codriver)
-$200 gas
-$250 tires
-$100 food
-$100 hotel
-$100 misc expenses
-$850 total per Pro ($3000 total)

SEDIV
-Same except for $150 tires and $100 gas
-$650 per SEDIV ($1300 total)

Natl Championship
-$200 fee
-$200 gas
-$500 tires
-$200 food
-$300 hotel
-$300 misc expenses
-$1700 total

12 local events
-$400 in entry fees
-$400-500 in gas
-$500 in food
-$200 hotels (for days)
-$500 misc expenses
-$1500 tires
$3500 total

So that comes to $9400 for the full year considering no contingency $$. If we got $$, we would probably run another Pro and then break out even there. That doesn't include the $1000 it will cost for shocks, so basically rounded out $10,500 to run the entire year This does include a $3300 tire budget here, which will be about 5 sets of kumhos, but I figured with 2 drivers thats how many we will go through.

wowsers.......now that you consider that, maybe we should just run local events especially when you consider that adding all this crap up it comes to $25 a run

-Tom

Tom,

You need to toss in your vacation time and the additional depreciation on the car.

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Jim Pastorius
2008 Silverado VortecMax
1992 Camaro CMC#92
2002 BMW R1150R

2009 3rd Place CMC Mid-Atlantic Championship
2009 CMC Hyperfest Winner

Actually, that's not all that bad. Your entire season will cost less than the tire budget for a top SS effort. One of this season's SS trophy winners quoted a tire budget of $13,000 in Hoosiers for the last season. Yikes!

When I run Hoosiers, tires alone add up to $25 per _run_. Andrea (my fiance) was kind enough to remind me that at an average 40 seconds per run my tires cost $2,250 per hour!!!

--Kevin H.

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2003 WRX (again!)

no depreciation on the car, it's not his I need to factor in about $50 per National Tour/Pro for drinking - AB

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'14 Toyota Sequoia Platinum 4WD
Super Westerfield Bros - '93 Integra - LeChump Du Jour
STX 93 - Scion FR-S

Yep, I'm definitely sticking to local stuff next year...

Still cheaper than most women and when the thrill wears off, you just get another set....ducking and heading for cover

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Jim Pastorius
2008 Silverado VortecMax
1992 Camaro CMC#92
2002 BMW R1150R

2009 3rd Place CMC Mid-Atlantic Championship
2009 CMC Hyperfest Winner

no comment on that first one. As far as the drinking, well if we do cases of miller lite and the beer bong again then the "drinking" budget is only like $20. Unless we are in Peru again, then we need to consider a whole new category for the "hip huggers" budget.

I have had quite a few people tell me that the STi seems to be a lot easier on tires then the WRX because of the more "neutral" balance of the car. I know we have been getting some decent wear out of the SO3s even while overheating the crap out of them. I thought with some rotation and flippage we could get 40 runs or so out of a set of Kumhos. Also we planned on running the 245/45/17 azenis that will be our rain/street tire at a few local events

-Tom